John R. Jackson wrote:
> You can also just tell Amanda not to do full dumps during the period > you just want to be using DDS2's. How would you tell amanda to do this? Would you change the disklist file? Would you use strategy no-full? > Then do a SDLT run once in a while > and tell it to do lots of fulls to get back in sync. Would you use amadmin force? Here is what I want to do, sorry it is not a very specific set of questions, but perhaps it will be interesting as a starting point for discussions. I want to do something similiar to the above. I have a DDS4 changer (playing the role of the SDLT above) and a spare hard disk for disk-only runs (playing the role of the DDS2 above). It is hard for me to get more tapes, and so I want to avoid using a tape per night, I would rather use a couple of tapes per week. (a set of fulldumps would probably fit on 3 cartridges). I want to make sure that the tape runs never depend on a dump that is disk-only, so I am anticipating making the disk-only runs not record into dumpdates. The tape runs would use the standard strategy. I was thinking of creating a new strategy that does only something like a level 8 dump which would hopefully be higher than the the backup levels recorded into dumpdates by the tape runs. so, i would probably want to recycle the disk-only "tapes" about once a week, but the real-tape tapes i would keep much longer. so they would need different dump-cycles, so I would need to have two versions of amanda.conf and disklist, and i would put the ones i want to run into place before running amdump. I am hoping that the index database will be able to cope with some of the "tapes" getting recycled before other (real) tapes in the cycle. any hints or kinks would be appreciated! --James Ganong
